Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pye Green BT Tower

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Keep per consensus, but recommend merge to Pye Green per WP:LOCAL. —Quarl (talk) 2006-12-31 07:07Z

[edit] Pye Green BT Tower

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Contested PROD. As per AfD precedents set by Ohconfucius and listed at: User:Ohconfucius/Far2manymasts, this article fails to assert notability as per WP:N. Wikipedia is not a directory, a indiscriminate collection of information or the MB21 transmitter gallery. tgheretford (talk) 19:50, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete - just another mast and nothing special about it. Jayden54 20:01, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
    • It is not a mast. Nathanian 20:32, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Major landmark. Nathanian 20:31, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep I know of no specific WP:POLICY governing how big, or how old or how visible a landmark must be to be notable. But this mast, or tower if you prefer, must surely qualify.--Anthony.bradbury 22:42, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Comment Incidentally, as an encyclopedia I would have thought that Wikipedia could accomodate an article on every TVG mast/tower in the world, if asked. That is what an encyclopedia does.--Anthony.bradbury 22:44, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, if it is a prominent local landmark, we need to see some reliable sources to indicate this. Wikipedia is not a directory of every structure in existence. Demiurge 23:27, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Then it needs a 'citation needed' tag, not a delete one. Harumphy 12:29, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep per Nathanian Akihabara 23:33, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Article asserts notability - reinforced concrete tower. Eludium-q36 11:16, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Article fully meets requirements of WP:N. Notability does not mean importance. It means that the thing has been noted. I've added one primary and three secondary source references to prove same. Please stop slapping these tags everywhere, it's a huge waste of everyone's time. Harumphy 12:27, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment for WP:N, those sources must be non-trivial. I couldn't check the offline ones, but [1] contains only trivial mentions of this tower. Demiurge 12:59, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. A notable landmark. As are many, many, other towers and masts, many of which are locally famous, with some being world-famous. Although presumably it's only a matter of time before the Eiffel Tower gets put up for AfD, on the basis that it's "only a tower"? -- The Anome 12:57, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Followup comment: a moment's Googling finds that Pye Green was one of the nodes in the British Cold War "Backbone" national defense network [2]. The concrete tower design may well have been to resist overpressure damage from near-miss nuclear explosions. -- The Anome 13:11, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep, meets content policies as its editors have demonstrated. JYolkowski // talk 00:03, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.